Gate.



Patented Dec. 4, I900. G. SHINE;

6 A T E.

Application filed July 31, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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litres YATES GEORGE SHINE, OF BANGOR, MICHIGAN.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 663,366, dated December 4, 1900.

:Application filed July 31, 1900.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE SHINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bangor, in the county of Van Buren and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Gate, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements .in gates.

One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of gates and to provide a double one adapted when opened to afford an opening or gateway of great width to permit vehicles with bulky loads and agricultural machinery and the like to pass through them readily.

A further object of the invention is to provide a double gate of this character which may be adjusted vertically to counteract sagging and to provide an entrance or opening at the bottom for the separation of small animals and also to permit the gate to clear obstructions, such as snow and the like.

Another object of the invention is to provide an adjustable keeper which maybe readily arranged to suit the position of the adjustable gate, so that the latter will close properly at all times.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a double gate constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the adjustable keeper. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the keeper, which is engaged by the resilient latch. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the resilient latch of the supplemental gate. Fig. 6 is a detail view of one of the staples which form the guide for the vertically-adjustable bar of the main gate. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view illustrating a modification of the latch and keeper forsecuring the supplemental gate.

Like numerals of reference designate corre sponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 and 2 designate supplemental and main gates having their free edges arranged at their adjacent ends and hinged at their outer ends,

Serial No. 25,465. (No model.)

and the main gate, which is of greater length than the supplemental gate, is connected by side 7, adapted to be screwed into the post 6v by rotating the staple. The other side of the staple is provided with an eye 8, arranged flat against the post 6 when the staple is in position and adapted to receive a screw or other suitable fastening device for holding this side of the staple. The bar 5 is adapted to be raised and lowered to arrange the gate at the desired elevation, and the weight of the gate will cause the bar 5 to bind against the post and the upper staple, whereby the main gate will be securely held in its vertical adjustment.

The main gate is provided with a springactuated latch 10, and it has a pointed rod 11, mounted in suitable guides and adapted to have its lower pointed end embedded in the ground for holding the gate open. The spring-actuated latch, which may be constructed in any suitable manner, projects beyond the free end of the main gate and is adapted to engage a vertically-adjustable keeper 12, consisting of a pair of vertical bars connected by adjusting devices and engaging tongues or projections 13 of the supplemental gate. The adjusting devices 14,which connect the bars of the main keeper, consist, preferably, of bolts and thumb-nuts and are arranged at the upper and lower portions of the bars, which are provided with fiat inner faces and which are spaced apart by the tongues of the supplemental gate. The bars of the main keeper are provided with beveled intermediate portions 15, adapted to be engaged by the spring-actuated latch when the main gate closes, whereby the latch is automatically forced inward or backward and is caused to project into the space between the bars 12, whereby the main gate is held in its closed position. The adj usting devices which cause the bars of the main keeper to clamp the tongues 0r projections 13 of the suppleportion. as clearly shown in Fig. Land the arm or supplemental gate.

be of any desired.construction, but are preferably ol' the form shown, being composed of pintles and eyes mounted, respectively, on the bar 5 and on the end bar of the main gate.

The hinges 16 of the supplemental gate may be of any desired construction, but are preferably strap-hinges and are arranged at one side of the supplementalgataas clearly illusi trated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings.

The supplemental gate, which is adapted to beopenedwhen a gateway of great width is desired, is provided at one side with a horizontally-disposed resilient latch 17,consisting of ashank 1S and anarm or projecting Theshank is secured to the gate,

projecting portion, which is resilient, is arranged at an angle to the supplemental gate and extends toward the hinged end thereof at an acute angle to that end of the gate, and it is provided at its extremity withan angularly-disposed projection or lug 19. The projection or lug which extends inward toward the fence 20, when the supplemental gate is closed, is adapted to engage a supplemental keeper 21, consisting of a strip of metal which is bent to form an arm 22 anda brace 23, the brace being provided with an extension or shank 24, which is secured to thefence. The arm and the brace form a substantially elbowshaped keeper, and an opening 25 is provided at the angle for thereception of the lug or projection. The angle of the elbowis slightly rounded,as 'shown, and itforms an exterior beveled or angularly-disposed portion, which is adapted to flex the resilient latch and cause the lug or projection to spring into the opening or aperture 25,'whereby both 'the gates will be held firmly in their-closed position. When itis desired toopenthe'supplemental gate, the'resilient latch issprung "out of engagement with the substantially 'V-shaped keeper, whichoperation leaves the gate free to Open, and it isada'qjted toswing around against the fence. When the supplemental gate is closed, the resilient latchl7 is automatically engagedwith the'supplemental keeper.

In Fig. 7 of thedrawings is illustrated a modification'of the latch and keeperof the This latch consistsoff'a hook 26, andthe keeper 27, which isapproximately V-sh'aped, is constructed of wire or othersuitablematerialcoiled at the apex to provide an eyeor opening 28 tobe engaged by the hook. The book is preferablyhinged to'thegate, as illustrated in Fig. 7, and the keeper has one side embedded in thepo'st or other portion of thefence, andtheother side is perforated for the reception of suitable fastening devices for securing it to the fence.

This form of latch and keeper is eflioient and may be cheaply manufactured.

It will be seen that the double gate is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in con struction, that the main gate is adapted to be opened and closed independently of the supplemental gate, and that it is capable of position of the main gate, and that it is readily detachable.

Ohangesin the form, proportion, size, and the 'minordetails of construction maybe resortedto without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention, such as varying the-construction of "themainjand supplemental gates and the fence to which the supplemental elbow or V shaped keeper is "applied.

1. The combination with "a'vertically-adjustable maiugate, and asupp lemental gate, ofa resilient latch located adjacent to one end of the supplemental gate andextending from one side thereof, a rigid keeper'mounted on a suitablesupportand arranged to beengaged by the resilient latch, aVerticaLlly-ad- =jns'table Inainkeepermountedon 't'he'supplemental gate andcompose(l-oftwo bars spaced apart, and a latch mo'untedon the maingate and engaging the vertically adjustable keeper, substantially as described.

2. Thecombination with a fvertically-adjustable main gate "provided "with'a latch, a support, a supplemental gate hinged to the support, a keeper mounted on *the supplementalgate at the free edgefthereof andengaged bythe latch of the' main gate, an approximately WI-shaped keeper extending out- 'wardfrom the support and provided at its apexwith an opening, and-alatch-carried by the supplemental gate "and engaging the opening ofthe V-shapedkeeper, substantially as "described.

The combination with a verticallly'adj ustab le main gate,and a supplemental gate,

teases 3 keeper, ofa resilientlaterally-extending latch the supplemental gate at the free edge theremounted on the supplemental gate, and a of and arranged to receive the latch of the stationary keeper arranged to be engaged main gate, substantially as described. by the resilient latch, substantially as de- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as scribed. my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 5. The combination with asupport, a main the presence of two Witnesses. gate, and a supplemental gate hinged to the i said support, a keeper fixed to the support, GEORGE SHINE a latch mounted on the supplemental gate and engaging the said keeper, a latch carried by the main gate, and a keeper mounted on Witnesses:

R. M. OHAsE, EDWIN RUTHRUFF. 

